Hello Just like everyone else, I am excited about how easily one can create Windows applications with the .NET platform, but for shareware, I have some serious reservations 1. Your code can be easily decompiled. This would make it very difficult to implement any sort of license restri...more >>

HI all I have created asetup project by using instruction from http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B821766 It creates the setup project and when I install it, it does show up in the ADD or Rmove Programs window but does not appear in the Programs menu Any help will be gre...more >>

Programmers everyday are making a tragic error by not learning mono. Mono is te standard .net implementation for Windos and Linux. Learning mono is the key to writing fast, OOP, cross platform applications. Mono virtualized the OS in the most efficient way possible -- making Linux program...more >>

Hello, this is something I've been asking myself for sometime ... and now I'd like to clarify this point. When should the try block start in a method??? What I mean is, does having all the code instead of a smaller set of it inside a try clause add any overhead??? What I'd like to understand...more >>

Hi all, I am using a date time picker control in my .net application. Now I want to validate the values entered here. I want to calculate the difference of start time and end time, but start time should not be more than end time, or else it should display invalid entry. Also, while calculating ...more >>

I have some code that writes log entries upon errors in an VB.NET web app. I can write the Message but in the log, preceding my message is the following: Description: The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source ( Application ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary ...more >>

Hello, a simple question (if you know the answer) ... how to convert from and array of bytes to a string (and viceversa). I haven't the conversion to be simple ... but even using the Convert or the Encoding class I seem to be having trouble accomplishing it. Bob Rock ...more >>

Anyone know of a control (or code showing how to) scrape addresses from a web page? Thanks for your help! ...more >>

Hello I see that the .NET platform is built around the idea of reusability. Is there any way to actually prevent someone from reusing one of my private assemblies? Suppose I have a commercial app Thank you very much Rich...more >>

Is there a way to have a windows service instantiate a class that is a web service, which will then be accessible to clients via HTTP? Thanks, -Mike ...more >>

Hello, I've got an xml stream that I'd need to deserialize into an instance of a given class A. I'd like to create an instance method on class A (method Deserialize) that takes this XML stream as input and deserializes it "into itself" ... in other words I'd like it to "fill" the instance of c...more >>

Hello, I was wondering when should static constructors be defined or are they even required??? Also, when are they implicitly called??? Bob Rock ...more >>

Hello, I've noticed that after calling the Close method on a StreamWriter, I get exceptions on any operation I might request on the associated stream (with a message "Cannot access a closed Stream"). Is this the behaviour I must expect? Nothing is said on the documentation. Bob Rock ...more >>

I created an msi using the Setup Wizard, but don't seem to be able to create a shortcut to the applicaton on the desktop (or prompt for one) or the menu. Also, I would like to add an "uninstall" to this, but don't see that it allows for this? Am I missing something? ...more >>

Sorry for that stupid question, but I'm searching for about 4 hours and don't find the stuff. Where are guidelines for creating icons for toolbars etc. that meet the XP guidelines? TIA Peter ...more >>

(Type your message here) visual studio cannot create or open the application because the= web server on this computer is not running=2E start the web server= before proceeding=2E I have checked the iis service and it is not= running when i start to open iis service it is giving an error= to...more >>

help: how to convert the piece of VB code to c#? If TypeOf pMap.SpatialReference Is IProjectedCoordinateSystem thank you so much ...more >>

how to get value by key in a hashtable? thank you! ...more >>

In the typical xsl you create elements as follow <xsl:for-each select="fname"><FriendlyName></FriendlyName></xsl:for-each In this case I need to create the name of the element programaticall <xsl:for-each select="catkeymaster"><xsl:element name= ><--- need to assign the name of element with ...more >>

Hi everyone, What I am doing in my application is I have a base app, then a bunch of plug-in dll files. Well this gets confuseing to diferentiate between the real plug-ins and the actual link libraries that are not to be used as plugins (in reality they are both DLL files) is there anyway I co...more >>

I did some experimentation in VB6 and VB.Net. With both applications, setting my Word.Application to nothing will not release winword.exe from memory. Also, I may have multiple copy of them... when you start/stop the application mutiple times. ?????? This is my vb6 code: Dim oApplication ...more >>

Visual Studio.net is not autofilling the names of object members, etc. I've checked the appropriate box in "Tools/Options/Text Editor" Any suggestions as to why, for instance, "cmdLogin.CommandType = commandType.StoredProcedure" will not fill in the "StoredProcedure" after I type the "." ...more >>

We need to find a downloadable copy of the evaluation version of this software. Any one know where I can get it? The reason: We're trying to evaluate Biztalk 2004 but it requires C# from Visual Studio .Net 2003. Biztalk 2004 trial is downloadable but . . ....more >>

Can anyone give me a quick little break down of what I would need to do to insert information into a database onClick of and Submit button? I am new to all of this and have done it with datagrids, but want to do it with just textboxes filled in and on click of the Submit button that it would tak...more >>

DOtNEt newbie. How do you launch an IE Browser from a winform? ...more >>

for example: A1 = 123 A1=123000 <- final result A1 =1234 A1=123400<- final result A1=1 A1=100000<-final result How do i append trailing zero? is there a function that i can use for this? i cannot use format(A1,"000000") because it append zero in front....more >>

Has anyone tried using WinFS as a repository for large numbers (10K) of application objects? Id be interested on the practicality of this and what performance is like I dont have a copy of Longhorn as yet :- cheer guy...more >>

Hi, I'm trying to build a client ASP.NET application in VB.NET that can display messages from a server application as soon as it receives them. These messages from the server have a limited life span so as soon as the code behind receives them it should render them as HTML while still list...more >>